Animalia > Chordata > Cyprinodontiformes > Poeciliidae > Poeciliopsis > Poeciliopsis gracilis

Poeciliopsis gracilis (Porthole livebearer)

Synonyms: Gambusia heckeli; Priapichthys letonai; Xiphophorus gracilis
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  On/In self
Litter Size [1]  40
Maximum Longevity [1]  1 year
Diet [2]  Planktivore, Detritivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  3 months 1 day

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Panuco Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0